by Nancy Colasurdo | Apr 25, 2013 | Unfettered 50
“I want my body back.” I’ve heard myself say this a number of times in the last few months. Sometimes in anguished frustration under my breath. Sometimes while sharing with family and friends. Sometimes in wonderment. Sometimes in prayer. The statement can mean so...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Nov 8, 2012 | Unfettered 50
You hear stories all your life about how a loved one’s death backs up on you at the strangest times, but it’s not until you’re picking out mustard in the condiments aisle in the supermarket and realizing you need to find a place where you can explode...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Sep 8, 2012 | Unfettered 50
It has taken me the entire summer to appreciate Chasing Sylvia Beach by Cynthia Morris. No, I’m not a slow reader, but I happened to take a big chunk out of this novel just before doubling my workload so I could go on vacation the last week in August with no...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 24, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Yesterday I took one of those detailed health quizzes online. I found out it would be better if I revisited the idea of vitamins, that I eat pretty darned well (probably better than most Americans but not as good as it could be for someone genetically predisposed to...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 9, 2012 | Unfettered 50
I feel more like Nancy than I have in a long time. I say that knowing, of course, that all of it, even the spinning, is Nancy. But what I mean is that this Nancy I’m more acquainted with, the one who has not been herself since Feb. 10, is back in the...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Aug 3, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Back in 1998 when I still lived in a Central New Jersey suburb, but a year or so after completing a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, I spent a vacation week in Manhattan at the West Village apartment of my friend Christina (also a UMich...
